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Easter hope: Kenya shall rise above corruption, fear and failed systems

Kenyans urged to be peaceful in the midst of trying times during Easter season.

By Edward Buri 1 month ago

A nation where insults speak louder than policies ever could

When leaders at the highest level describe opponents using crude references-especially to body parts-and offer no apology, something fundamental shifts.

By Edward Buri 1 month ago

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Paradox of a country where those in power don't listen to their own data

Ruto's regime is mortgaging every existing levy and weaponising financial engineering lingua like public-private partnerships to cover up for the implied national debt burden.

By Edward Buri 1 month ago

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Nancy Gathungu: The lone prophet with the ledger holding State to account

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu delivers impactful reports through numbers and data, quietly shaking the nation without speeches or fanfare.

By Edward Buri 1 month ago

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Political power shifts: Will morality and ethics keep pace with change?

As political power shifts, questions arise over whether morality and ethics can keep pace, especially when ousted party members are expected to vanish from the scene.

By Edward Buri 2 months ago

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Ash consciousness: When leaders forget they are dust, nation bleeds

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent with a solemn call to repentance and reflection, symbolised by the tracing of ash and the reminder of human mortality.

By Edward Buri 2 months ago

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Beyond projects: Why leaders must choose love to build lasting legacy

Leaders must prioritise love and moral integrity over projects to build a lasting legacy and inspire true societal progress.

By Edward Buri 2 months ago

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Christian leadership is not optional, the church cannot be alternative

Christian leadership, the author argues, must be central and formative rather than a marginal "alternative" that merely coexists with dominant cultural norms.

By Edward Buri 2 months ago

Faith in action: Martin Luther King Jr's lessons for church and the State

King's life exposes a difficult truth for the modern church: neutrality is often a comfortable disguise for fear.

By Edward Buri 3 months ago

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Ndindism shows calm, competent leadership can beat political drama

Truth be told, Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro embodies the skill and spirit of the leader Kenyans nationwide are thirsting for.

By Edward Buri 3 months ago

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Why faith and science must stand together to heal and advance life

A society that belittles medicine belittles life itself, and a faith that demonises science misunderstands the God who gives knowledge, wisdom, insight, and steady hands.

By Edward Buri 3 months ago

Prayer as protest that unseats arrogance and resets the nation

If prayer is to shape Kenya's future, prayer spaces must become places of revolution, not violent revolt, but prophetic resistance.

By Edward Buri 4 months ago

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Kenya's future depends on citizens daring to act with hope and virtue

Kenya closes the year stranded at a crossroads-hungry for change, yet hesitant to claim it. Citizens watch as windows of participation swing open.

By Edward Buri 4 months ago

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Why the church must reclaim its moral voice from political power

Priests are human. Their clay nature will surface, robes notwithstanding.

By Edward Buri 4 months ago

Faith and integrity: Can the church guide nation correctly this election?

For in a nation groaning under the weight of its contradictions, the church's most powerful contribution is not merely a vote, but a vision rooted in God.

By Edward Buri 4 months ago

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Stolen frontline: How manipulated crowds silence country's true voice

Kenya knows this Pilate well. We have leaders who recognize wrongdoing, who understand the cost of corruption, who see the manipulation, who know the truth.

By Edward Buri 4 months ago

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Why recent by-election losers with integrity outshine tainted winners

Kenya has entered an era where winning no longer automatically signals legitimacy.

By Edward Buri 5 months ago

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Why Kenya needs a spiritual, intellectual think tank

If the Church remains intellectually unarmed, it will have nothing meaningful to offer a public that has already moved beyond cliches.

By Edward Buri 5 months ago

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Kenya needs a church of thinkers, visionaries, not just loud sermons

The Church must appear in public spaces with full confidence in its identity.

By Edward Buri 5 months ago

The church must rethink and reposition its influence

When Kenya heads to the ballot in 2027, the church remains an unavoidable force. Its congregations, structures, and networks still touch millions.

By Edward Buri 5 months ago

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Grand projects mean little when the ordinary citizens feel no real change

True progress means not only cutting hours off a journey-but cutting anxiety from a wage-earner's life.

By Edward Buri 6 months ago

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To heal country's wounds, we must trade tribal loyalty with integrity

Time has come to rebuild not only our roads and bridges, but our souls - to reconstruct the inner highways of honesty, humility and hope.

By Edward Buri 6 months ago

Life and death teach us to build what truly matters beyond a fleeting world

Burying Raila Odinga was definitely not part of the broad-based plan. They had brighter ideas that did not include this dark reality.

By Edward Buri 6 months ago

When pulpits are reformed, polling stations redeem themselves again

To form new voters, the Church must first renew the mind, sanctify the conscience and model integrity - for people vote the culture they see.

By Edward Buri 6 months ago

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Kenya doesn't need new leaders to steer progress, it needs new voters

Survival in Kenya doesn't come from podiums. It's chamas, families, and small support circles that carry us through. That is where our energy should go.

By Edward Buri 7 months ago

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Kenyan politicians fail export test but they make the cut for shipment

Kenyan-style politicians are barriers, not gateways, to the nation's creatives. They dream only for themselves, spinning the real dreams of ordinary Kenyans in circles.

By Edward Buri 7 months ago

Our leaders worship money and not morality in their pursuit for power

Money never answered the deepest questions. It never did. Justice, mercy, love, sacrifice, and hope have always required something far greater.

By Edward Buri 7 months ago

The Church should stop pretending the old missionary model still works

The Church cannot limit itself to prayers for prosperity while ignoring the despair of idleness.

By Edward Buri 7 months ago

Bright minds betrayed: How greed turns scholars into empty shells

When PhD-holding leaders act like typical politicians, the value of intellectualism in Kenyan politics is questioned.

By Edward Buri 8 months ago

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Why Ruto, MPs standoff over graft is good news for Kenyans

The ruling elite once fought Gen Z to the death for daring to speak against corruption. But now the fire burns in their own courts, in parliament and the executive.

By Edward Buri 8 months ago

When demeaning demands turn politics into a humiliation theatre

Politics can be messy, even desperate. But to cross the line into the indignification of women - reducing them to objects for male amusement - is not desperation. It is degradation.

By Edward Buri 8 months ago

Pride is our nation's real pandemic and only humility can save leaders

Kenya does not need another strongman. It needs strong hearts-soft before God, firm for justice. Pride is the powder barrel beneath our feet.

By Edward Buri 8 months ago

In an era of greed and impunity, only clergy capital can save this country

When clergy rise with clarity and conviction, they inject sanity into systems, they force thieves to think twice, and serve as societal shepherds not just spiritual decorators.

By Edward Buri 9 months ago

Politicians criticise modern families because they fear children who think

Kenya finds itself in a moment of spiritual contradiction where those who birth, nurture, and mentor life are being scapegoated by the very powers meant to protect them.

By Edward Buri 9 months ago

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A church that won't flatter kings is finally doing its job speaking truth

The State is sending mixed signals about its relationship with the Church.

By Edward Buri 9 months ago

Church rooted in the public square must fearlessly bear fruit of justice

A public square church must first look inward. Justice is not an optional add-on to our spiritual programmes - it is a core indicator of our authenticity.

By Edward Buri 9 months ago

When the State hires thugs to fight its citizens, it loses war on criminals

A system that uses criminals to fight its battles cannot fight crime. It's not merely a contradiction but it's a confession.

By Edward Buri 10 months ago

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Gen Zs never left, they changed lanes from streets demos to the podcast mic

The Gen Z uprising wasn't organised in smoky backrooms, nor powered by billionaires. It was born in tweets and tears, in slogans and songs, in grief and grit.

By Edward Buri 10 months ago

In a broken system, Ojwang's father proved what true leadership means

In death, once-unknown teacher and influencer Albert Ojwang' exposed a rogue system.

By Edward Buri 10 months ago

When priests are killed, the killers also strangle a community's soul

Killing a priest is not just taking a life; it is wounding a community, defiling a calling, and challenging the place of the sacred in public life.

By Edward Buri 10 months ago